Ban homosexuality! It's too dangerous.

For the sake of society, and for their own good, we must stop gay men from actively practicing   sex.

And discriminating against smokers means that we can also discriminate against gays.

That’s the conclusion of recent Christian extremists in America. Here’s one recent quote:

“What justification is there for condemning smoking and endorsing homosexuality?” asked Dr. Paul Cameron, of the Family Research Institute, a Colorado-based think tank. “Today, all across the Western world, school children are being taught the acceptability of homosexuality and the wrongness of smoking.” (http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/apr/07040309.html).

And guess what? Both their tactics and their justification are borrowed from the anti-smoking movement.

1. It’s unhealthy

Like the anti-smoking movement, the anti-gay movement argues that gayness should be banned because it is dangerous and unhealthy.

You know what? They might be right, for all I know, though I suspect their conclusions may be based on junk science.

But that’s not the point.

I do not have the right to tell these people how to live their lives. And they have the right to make decisions about how to live their lives. And if that involves doing something dangerous, so be it.

2. Science by press release

The anti-smoking movement pushed the absurd idea of third hand smoke (the unproven idea that cancer causing toxins can somehow jump from smokers to non-smokers) via press release. (See what real scientists think: Scientists Dispel Ash Junk Science.)

It seems a huge joke that people who believe evolution is a hoax and that people and dinosaurs coexisted (like  www.creationists.org/) should use science to further their cause.

Nevertheless, they are releasing studies which ‘prove’ gay sex is dangerous,  and can reduce life span by the 24 years.  (http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/apr/07040309.html).

Incidentally, Dr Cameroon is an unlicensed psychologist; he was expelled from the American psychologist’s society for non-compliance with an ethics comittee investigation. He’s also been accused of misintepreting social studies by the American Sociological Association and Canadian Psychological Association. Oh, and he conducts passive smoking studies.

3. Spreading Disease

Like the anti-smoking society, these idiots also argue that homosexuals spread disease (although HIV and Syhilis rather than heart attacks and lung cancer.)

They are probably right. But only for gay people who take the risk of participating in unproteced sex with untested partners.

And that’s their call to make, not ours.

(Strangely enough, the anti-gays argue that gay marriage will promote aids and syphilis. Which is  a bit like arguing that straight marriage causes venereal disease!)

What’s the point of this little tirade?

We at the ASHTRAY blog may promote an alternative to smoking to those who choose to use it – but we believe in the freedom to choose, whether that choice be dangerous or not.

When the freedom to choose is taken away from one group in society, it threatens the liberty of all groups in society.

I leave you with a little poem from a religious person who I do admire:

“THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist.

THEN THEY CAME for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.

THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.

THEN THEY CAME for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant.

THEN THEY CAME for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up.”

Martin Niemöller

Tags: homosexuals, junk science, marriage, smoking

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